Patient was instructed upon practicing altered focus technique for pain management as follows: Select a comfortable place, as you need some isolation with calm and quiet environment, so as to practice the technique. Make yourself comfortable by either sitting down or lying flat. Start doing slow and deep breathing and focus on the rise of chest and abdomen during the inspiratory phase of the breathing. Hold the breath for 3 seconds at the end of [...]

Patient was instructed regarding altered focus technique for pain management as follows: Altered focus is a technique of pain management, in which you train the mind to produce pleasant, altered sensations in a non-painful part of the body. Also, to help generate the altered sensation, you can train the mind to visualize the rest of the body receiving some treatment, such as, a warm massage. Relaxing into the altered sensation produced in a non-painful part [...]